This is rediculous its really simple, I OWN this laptop, my friend who BOUGHT this laptop sha for whatever reason decided that its a pile of crap and the HDD failing was the last straw. Which is fine. and as I DONT spend my days BURGALING or ROBBING people I figured a HELP forum about this laptop might actually help me!  AND when I try and politly say its ok dont worry about it you carry on calling me a lier and a theif, which by the way you are clearly doing! so, one last time, you are clearly unable to help me, so insteado fo using what I thought was the conveniance of the internet ill say thank you for your waist of time and I will try and spend an hour on the phone paying however much they want to charge me for being on hold and call them up.   Sorry for thinking that the internet was a helpful and conveniant resource for information.   P.S. when I get to work today and some little old lady come in with a puncture in her bike I wont saaume she stole it just because she dosent know how to change a tyre!   ... View more

My friend doesn't have the original recept. He bought a replacement laptop and chucked all the old stuff. I doubt I have any warranty anyway as iv pulled it apart. So if your unable to help me with the problem I'll just leave it at that ... View more

its not a HDD password it shows the message regardless if there is a hard drive in it or not   its ok, if the answer is that i cant get in and thats the end of it then ill throw it away, it would have just been nice to reserect it for my mother to use   seems like a  waste really   ... View more

I understand your concern  A friend of mine owned it, bought it from new.  the hard drive packed up on it and she bought a new laptop she dosnt know a great deal about laptops and didnt set a password on there I simpally took the old hard drive out and tested it and replaced it with an old hard drive I have kicking round but it comes up with the message that it requires a password. She bought it new so its not stolen, and she never set any passwords on it, she wouldnt even know how to do anything outside windows    ... View more